Session A: Prof. Paulo Artaxo (Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo) – Title of the talk: "Direct and indirect aerosol radiative forcing and the impacts on the Amazonian ecosystem" by Paulo Artaxo, Paulo H. Oliveira, Melina Paixão and Aline S. Procópio
Dr. Alberto Setzer (CPTEC/INPE) – Title of the talk: "The current status of burned areas estimates and their atmospheric emissions"
Dr. Jacqueline Lenoble (Univ Sci & Tech Lille Flandres Artois) – Title of the talk: "Scattering and Polarization of the Solar Radiation in the Earth's Atmosphere. Historical Review and Present Applications"
Dr. Michael Mishchenko ( NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) – Title of the talk: "Gustav Mie and the evolving subject of light scattering by particles"
Dr. Hans-Juergen Bolle (Free Univ Berlin) – Title of the talk: "20th Century Radiation Research: Photon Interactions From Molecular Scale to Complex Structures"
Dr. John Harries (Imperial College)
Dr. Graeme Stephens (Colorado State University) - CLOUDSAT
Dr. David Winker (NASA Langley Research Center) – Title of the talk: "Understanding aerosol and cloud radiative effects using observations from CALIPSO and the A-train: Progress and prospects"
Dr. Rolf Stuhlmann (EUMETSAT) – Title of the talk: "Geophysical product extraction from IASI at EUMETSAT" by R. Stuhlmann, P. Schlüssel, T. Hultberg, X. Calbet, A. Arriaga, T. August, O. Oduleye

Session B: Dr. Warren Wiscombe (NASA/GSFC) - Title of the talk: "The Transition from 1D to 3D Radiative Transfer: Why has it happened, was it really necessary, and how can we know if it really helps?"
Dr. Ping Yang (Texas A&M University) - Title of the talk: "Radiative Transfer and Light Scattering: From Cradle to Adolescence" by Ping Yang and George W. Kattawar

Session C: Dr. Kelly Chance (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA) – Title of the talk: "Global Monitoring of Tropospheric Pollution from Geostationary Orbit"
Dr. Stella Melo (Canadian Space Agency, Canada) – Title of the talk: "On the Importance of Laboratory Spectroscopy for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences"
Dr. Johannes Orphal (University of Paris12, France) – Title of the talk: "Molecular Spectroscopy and Remote-Sensing of the Atmosphere"

Session D: Dr. Stefan Kinne, MPI, Hamburg, Germany – Title of the talk: "Microphysical and optical properties of atmospheric particles: an overview."

Session E: Dr. William L. Smith (Hampton University) – Title of talk: "Current capabilities and future advances in satellite ultraspectral IR sounding"
Dr. Michael Mishchenko ( NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies) - Title of the talk: "Polarimetric remote sensing of aerosols and clouds: effects of particle shape and morphology"
Dr. Hogan J. Robin (University of Reading) – Title of talk: "Combined radar/lidar/radiometer retrievals of ice clouds from the A-train of satellites" by Hogan J. Robin and Delanoe Julien
Dr. Fischer Herbert (IMK-ASF) – Title of the talk: "MIPAS aboard ENVISAT: More than 5 years of trace gas and particle measurements"

Session F: Dr. Steven A. Ackerman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Title of talk: 'Intercomparisons of cloud height from CALIPSO, MODIS, and CloudSat'
Dr. Claudia Stubenrauch (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique - École Polytechnique) – Title of talk: ‘GEWEX assessment of global cloud climatologies: cloud properties and their variation'

Session G: Dr. Lorraine Remer (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) – Title of the talk: "Relationship between field experiments and the development of the MODIS aerosol algorithms"
Dr. Zhanqing Li (ESSIC, University of Maryland) – Title of the talk: "Aerosol effects under hazy environment: An overview of major field campaigns in China"
Dr. Guang-Yu Shi (State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Science) – Title of the talk: "Data quality assessment and the long-term trend of ground solar radiation in China"
Dr. Darrel Baumgardner (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) – Title of the talk: "In Situ Measurements of the Characteristics of Light Absorbing Particles:New Technology and Atmospheric Implications"

Session H: Dr. Johannes Quaas (Cloud-Climate Feedbacks Group - Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) - Title of the talk: "Aerosol direct and indirect climate forcing - clues from satellite data and climate modeling"
Dr. Peter Pilewskie (University of Colorado) – Title of the talk: "Input to the Climate System: A New Understanding of Solar Irradiance from the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment"
Dr. Bruce Wielicki (NASA Langley Research Center) – Title of the talk: "New Directions in Radiation Budget and Climate"
Dr. Martin Wild (Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich) – Title of the talk: "Decadal changes in surface radiative fluxes"
Dr. Tadahiro Hayasaka (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) – Title of the talk: "Shortwave Absorption Properties of Atmosphere over China"

Session I: Prof. Volker Wulfmeyer (Institut für Physik und Meteorologie) – Title of the talk: "Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting in Low-Mountain Regions: A Major Challenge Addressed by the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS)"

Session J: Prof. Maria Assunção Faus da Silva Dias (CPTEC/INPE, IAG/USP) – Title of the talk: "Aerosol and Rainfall Interactions in the Amazon Basin"
Dr. Daniel Rosenfeld (Hebrew University) – Title of talk: "Thermodynamic versus radiative aerosol cloud-mediated forcing"